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Beltway myth: "The left-wing base" vs. "the American people" on Iraq

Mara Liasson falsely claims that "the American people" only want to leave Iraq when "conditions on the ground" permit it.
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  • Monday, July 7, 2008 06:39 AM

    And the Chattering Classes can think that way because the Palace

    is a self-reinforcing -- as well as self-referential -- system, never really disturbed by forces outside the gates.

    As long as The American People are passive, denizens of the Palace like Liasson have no reason, certainly no motivation, to reconsider their own pundit pap.

    The American People may well have "opinions" about this or that, but obviously they have neither power nor influence within the Palace corridors, so why pay any attention to their "opinions?" Better by far to just tell them what they think and what they believe.

    Anything else is just too messy.

    —Ché Pasa Read Ché Pasa's other letters

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